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IN MEMORY OF 



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APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR 

OF THE State of Rhode Island 



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First Baptist Meeting-House 



PROVIDENCE 



SEPT. 19, 1901, AT 1 P. M. fc: 




EDITED BY 
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Order of Service 



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I. ©roan Doluntar^ 

Miss Emma J. Williams, Organist 



II. HUtbem — " Come j-e disconsolate" Dudley Buck 
Quartette of the First Baptist Church 



Mr. Emory P. Russell 
Mr. Arthur L. Kimball 



Miss Elizabeth T. Northup 
Miss Grace E. Baker 



III. iRcaMiui ol tbc iproclamations of 
pre5i&ent X^beo^o^e IRoosevelt 
anb (Bovernor MiUiam Oreaorp 

By Rev. Henry M. King, D. D. 

Pastor of the First Baptist Church 



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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

a proclamation 

A terrible bereavement has befallen our people. The Presi- 
dent of the United States has been struck down ; a crime 
conmiitted, not only aj^ainst the Chief Magistrate, but against 
every law-abiding and libertj'-loving citizen. 

President McKinley crowned a life of largest love for his 
fellow-men, of most earnest endeavor for their welfare, by a 
death of Christian fortitude, and both the way in which he 
lived his life and the way in which, in the supreme hour of 
trial, he met his death, will remain forever a precious heritage 
of our people. 

It is meet that we as a nation express our abiding love and 
reverence for his life, our deep sorrow for his untimely death. 

Now therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United 
States, do appoint Thursday next, September 19, the day on 
which the body of the dead President will be laid in its last 
resting place, as a day of mourning and prayer throughout the 
United States. 

I earnestly recommend all the people to assemble on that 
day in their respective places of Divine worship, there to bow 
down in submission to the will of Almighty God, and to pay 
out of full hearts their homage of love and reverence to the 
great and good President whose death has smitten the nation 
with bitter grief. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. 



L.S.} 



Done at Washington, the 14th day of September, 
A. D. one thousand nine hundred and one, and of 
the independence of the United States the one 
hundred and twenty-sixth. 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 

By the President : 

John Hay, Secretary of State. 



McKlNLBY MEMORIAI. 



STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PRoVIDKNCE PLANTATIONS 

S proclamation 

BY His Exceluency William Gregory 
William McKinley. twenty-fifth President of the United States, 
died on Saturday, September the fourteenth, nineteen hundred 
and one, at about two o'clock in the morning, in the city of 
Buffalo, New York, from the effect of a revolver shot fired by 
an assassin, at the time of a public reception of the nation's 
Executive on the afternoon of Friday, September the sixth, at 
the Pan-American Exposition. 

The announcement, which it is my sad duty to make, records 
a monstrous crime the circumstances of which are to all of us 
familiar. No words can sound the depths of our common 
grief, no eulogy express the fullness of our affection for the 
citizen whom we distinguished as first among us. Because he 
was our President he was murdered. The motive is without a 
parallel in our country's history, and to the cry of horror at the 
act is added a free people's mighty denunciation of the abomi- 
nable doctrine that it is claimed to represent. 

By proclamation of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the 
United States, Thursday next, September the nineteenth, the 
day on which the body of the dead President will be laid in its 
last resting place, is appointed a day of mourning and prayer 
throughout the United States, and the same shall be a holiday 
according to the General Laws. 

On that day let us assemble in our respective places of wor- 
ship, there solemnly to participate in heart and spirit in the 
last seri-ices to the dead. In our devotions may we be sus- 
tained and comforted by the profound thought conveyed in the 
words of our President, dying : " God's will be done, not ours. " 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and 
caused the seal of the vState to be aflSxed at Pro\n- 
^,-^^ dence, this fifteenth day of September, in the year 
I L. s. I °f o"*" Lord nineteen hundred and one, of the 
*_^* founding of the State the two hundred and sixty- 
sixth, and of Independence the one hundred and 
twenty-sixth. 
R r WILLIAM GREGORY. 

By thk Govp.knor : -vv v ^.^ i . 

Charles P. Bennett, Secretary of State. 



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iv. Ifntro^uctori? IRcniarl^s anb llnvocation 

Rev. Henry M. King, I). D. 

In compliance witli these Proclamations, by the 
President of the United States and the Governor of 
this ancient Commonwealth, we, fellow-citizens, rep- 
resenting every walk and station in life, have assem- 
bled in this historic sanctuary, whither the people 
have often come in times of public sorrow or rejoicing, 
to express our appreciation of the high personal char- 
acter and the distinguished public services of our late 
Chief Magistrate, to give utterance so far as our poor 
words will permit, to our profound sorrow at his tragic 
removal from us, and to implore the blessing of Al- 
mighty God upon his bereaved family and the aflQicted 
nation. lyct us invoke the divine blessing. 

flnvocatiou 

O Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all 
generations. Thou hast been the shelter of thy people 
in their hours of sore distress and need. We bow our 
heads to-day under the shadow of an inexpressible grief, 
and we trust, also, under the shadow of thy protecting 
wing. Thou art not a God afar ofF, but near at hand. 
We need but to feel after thee to find thee, and to 
find thee is to find light in our darkness, and comfort 
in our distress, and courage in our despondency. Thou 
hast been our fathers' God in the past, in trial and 

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temptation and like sorrow. We look to thee as our 
God in this terrible calamity which has come so sud- 
denly upon us, and together with our fellow-citizens 
throughout the land we humbly seek thy face and 
favor. 

Be pleased to manifest thyself unto us in this sanct- 
uary to-day, and luito all thy waiting people who turn 
at this hour with mourning hearts to thee. Comfort, 
we beseech thee, those most tenderly bereaved, and 
overrule this mysterious event to the spiritual good of 
this great nation. Grant peace and wisdom unto all 
the people, and the submissive spirit which will say in 
the words that fell from the lips of the dying Presi- 
dent : " Not our wills, but thy wall, be done." May 
we be still, and know that thou art God. 

We inxokc thy presence and blessing in all these 
services in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. 
Amen. 

V. lRc5pon5ive IRcaMno ot psalm 00 

Rev. Gkorgk W. Kent 

Pastor of //le Westminster Unitayia7i Church 

VI. Scripture Xcsson 

Isaiah xl. 1-31. 1 Sam. vii. 15; xii. 1-4. 

Jobxxix. 1-17. 2 Pet. ii. 1-22; iii. 17, 'S. 

Rev. Edward O. B.\RTLKrr 

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VII. 1f3\)mn IRo. 708 

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, 

Lead thou me on ; 
The night is dark, and I am far from home, 

Lead thou me on ; 
Keep thou my feet ; I do not ask to see 
The distant scene ; one step enough for me. 

I was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou 

Shouldst lead me on ; 
I loved to choose and see my path ; l)ut now 

Lead thou me on ; 
I loved the garish day, and spite of fears 
Pride ruled my will. Remember not past years. 

So long thy power has blest me, sure it still 

Will lead me on 
O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till 

The night is gone ; 
And with the morn those angel faces smile, 
Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile. 



VIII. prater 

Rev. Augustus M. Lord 

Pastor of the First Congregational Church 

Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy 

name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in 

earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily 

bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our 

debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver 

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us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the 
power, and the glory, forever. Amen. 

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, on this day 
of mourning and prayer our hearts go out to the 
group of kindred, friends and fellow- workers who see 
all that is mortal of the leader they followed and the 
man they loved consigned to its last resting place. 

We mourn with them and we mourn for ourselves. 
We mourn because at the beginning of this new cen- 
tury ignorant hate and brooding passion, revolting 
against all law and order, still select as their victim a 
man of pure life and honorable intent. 

We mourn because he had to meet this fate as our 
representative, for our sake, standing for the prin- 
ciples of a free state, to which this great republic is 
consecrated. 

And we pray that this noble and unmurmuring 
sacrifice may bear fruit in our lives, the lives of rulers 
and people, of leaders and led ; that the sorrow of 
this hour may deepen into a steadier loyalty to all 
that is just and right, a stronger abhorrence of all 
that is cowardly and envious and mean. 

In us and through us may our beloved country be 
guarded against the unchartered liberty of destruction 
and set free into the constructive freedom of the 
truth, not the freedom of our own unreasoning de- 
sires, but the liberty wherewith Christ hath set us 
free. 



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Father, heed our prayer, guide us, receive us, and 
bless us. We ask it in the spirit of him whose dis- 
ciples we try to be. Amen, 

IX. ib^mn "flo. 600 

Nearer, my God, to thee, 

Nearer to thee ; 
E'en though it be a cross 

That raiseth me, 
Still all my song shall be 
Nearer, my God, to thee. 

Nearer to thee. 

Though like a wanderer. 

The sun gone down. 
Darkness be over me, 

My rest a stone. 
Yet in my dreams I'd be 
Nearer, my God, to thee. 

Nearer to thee. 

There let the way appear 

Steps unto heaven ; 
All that thou sendest me 

In mercy given. 
Angels to beckon me 
Nearer, my God, to thee, 

Nearer to thee. 

Then with my waking thoughts, 

Bright with thy praise, 
Out of my stony griefs. 

Bethel I'll raise ; 
So by my woes to be 
Nearer, my God, to thee. 

Nearer to thee. 



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Rev. William H. P. Faunce, D. D. 

President of Brown University 

"It is better," said the Wise Man, "to go to the 
house of mourning than to the house of feasting." 
For in the house of feasting we sometimes forget 
God, but in the house of mourning we always come 
back to him. Our beloved country has been through 
many feast-days in the last few years. Visions of 
unparalleled power and progress and prosperity have 
floated before our eyes. Triumphs and congratula- 
tions and glowing prophecies have filled our minds 
and hearts. Our country's story has been a tale of 
victories by land and sea, victories in the harvest- 
field and mine, victories in the factory and the mill 
and the exchange ; and some of us have been 
tempted to think that the expansion of trade and the 
growth of commercial power would of itself usher 
in the millennium and establish the everlasting King- 
dom of God. But suddenly out of the clear sky the 
blow falls — nay, not out of the sky, but up from the 
depths of hell the dastard arm is stretched ; and the 
flags of a continent sink to half-mast, from Narragan- 
sett Bay to the Golden Gate the land is draped in 
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McKiNLKY Memorial 



of every State, and millions mourn as when in ancient 
Egypt there was hardly a house in which there was 
not one dead. 

It is fitting that at such a time the State should 
hold its memorial servdce — not for oration or eulogy, 
elaborating a grief that lies too deep for tears, but for 
simple honest words of loyalty and affection, for 
prayer to the Father of the living and the dead, and 
for renewing our high allegiance to our common 
country. The State which was the last to adopt the 
Constitution of the Republic will be the last to desert 
it. The State which gave to the nation Nathanael 
Greene and Oliver Hazard Perry sorrows to-day with 
her sister State of Ohio, and yet congratulates her on 
the high distinction of giving to the Republic two 
martyred Presidents, who by their death, as by their 
life, have brought strength and glory to every State 
whose star gleams in our American flag. 

We mourn to-day for William McKinley, the man. 
We thank God that he left, as one great bequest to 
the young men of America, the record of a stainless 
private life, a manhood unsullied and sincere. We 
have not always ventured to inquire too narrowh' into 
the private life of great leaders. We have admired 
their public virtues, but as regards their personal life 
have kept enforced silence. But we mourn a man 
to-day whose inmost private life will bear the fierce 
light which now beats upon it. No divergence of 

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political views — and some of us have diverged at 
times sharply from his policy — can hide from us the 
fact that this was a good man, free from guile, 
chicanery and intrigue. 

And that goodness shone out in geniality and kind- 
liness toward all his fellow-men. Some of our leaders 
are inaccessible, mysterious, sphinx-like. He was 
bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. His habit 
was home-spun, and his dignity of manner could not 
hide from us the native urbanity and kindly interest 
in every human being. That little porch of the 
modest home in Canton has become almost as well 
known to us as the steps of the White House, and we 
have liked to think of him there, the simple un- 
affected American, as devoted to his home as to his 
country. We have liked to think of him, and of 
her who has stood beside him so many years, almost 
preceding him into the world of light, but .still re- 
maining in the land of mystery and shadow. For 
thirty years he watched over her with rare tenderness 
and devotion ; she now watches over all that is mortal 
of him ; and the nation guards them both. Together 
they gave to America the best thing that can be 
given, the influence of a Christian home. While 
such homes are scattered over our land, leaders will 
not be wanting at the crisis of the Republic. Let 
the great cities have this week their great funeral 
pageants. It is fitting that the end should come where 

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the life was lived, in the simple American home at 
Canton. 

We mourn also a man who possessed a distinct kind 
of greatness. It is often said that a great man in this 
country cannot reach the Presidency. But there are 
various types of greatness. There are men who by 
sheer force of will and dominance of personality 
compel our reluctant admiration and subdue us into 
following them. These are the Alexanders and Na- 
poleons of the State, the Augustines and Hildebrands 
of the church, the Michael Angelos and Wagners in 
the world of art. But there are others, great in their 
power of reception and interpretation. They absorb 
into themselves the longings of their generation, they 
catch the inarticulate cry of humanity, and then they 
interpret those longings and cries, and express them 
in words and deeds, as did John Bunyan and Phillips 
Brooks, as did Abraham Lincoln and William McKin- 
ley. They move the world, not perhaps as an original 
force, not as an irresistible wind, bending the forest 
before it ; but they come as the sunlight, evoking, 
revealing and explaining, and they bless the world by 
their shining. And while the great original spirits 
often stand cold and isolated, the interpreters of the 
.soul to itself are our friends and brothers. We 
admire the philosopher, we love the man. Therefore, 
even if men do not, in the histories of the future, call 
President McKinley, as .some rulers have been called, 

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"the Great" or "the Bold," they will call him, as the 
people have already begun to do, " the Well-beloved. " 

That such a man should be struck down, is it not a 
demonstration of the powerlessness of civilization to 
protect itself against disorder, and the incapacity of 
human governments to deal with anarchy ? Is it not 
a complete triumph of the powers of darkness on 
the earth? On the contrary, it is a demonstration, 
never to be forgotten, of the futility of violence, of 
the folly of crime, of the fact that the assassin suc- 
ceeds in only one thing, in earning the everlasting 
execration of all humanity. This murderer — whose 
alien name ought never to be pronounced again in 
America — has miserably failed to advance by one iota 
his inhuman creed, and has succeeded only in black- 
ening his own name through all coming centuries. 

Anarchy aims to destroy the government. But the 
headship of the Republic has pas.sed, with tears, but 
without misgiving, into other and most competent 
hands, and the government was never stronger than 
to-day. The loyalty of millions has found expression 
this last week, and the deed we mourn has made the 
land to glow with patriotic fervor. 

Anarchy aims to destroy human society and break 
the bonds of home, neighborhood and church. But 
to-day we realize the brotherhood of rich and poor, 
black and white, great and small, as never before, 
and with one common impulse we stand together. 

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Anarchy aims to destroy the fraternity of nations 
and prevent co-operant action of human governments. 
But to-day all civilized nations hush their strife, and 
forget their divergencies, and bow with us in prayer 
to God. Messages of grief and sympathy pulsate 
through the Atlantic. Every crowned head of Eu- 
rope sends some token of sorrow, differences of race 
and religion vanish in the common bereavement, the 
republics of South America hasten to lay a chaplet 
of flowers on the bier, and the nations seem ' ' confed- 
erate to one golden end." We have had a demonstra- 
tion such as the world has not hitherto seen of the 
enduring strength of republican institutions, of inter- 
national sympathy and good- will, of the growing 
brotherhood of man. 

We believe in our government and in our country 
as never before, and in this historic building, in the 
hour of prayer and hymn punctuated by the booming 
of cannon, let us rise, not in body but in spirit, not in 
formal resolution but in silent self-dedication — let us 
rise and renew our fealty to the Republic, and pledge 
to President Theodore Roosevelt the loyal, unswerving 
support of every man, woman and child in the State 
of Rhode Island. In the solemn scenes of this day 
party lines fade, our country looms large and fair and 
invincible, and we address to her the glowing words 
of Lowell spoken just after another sore trial of the 
nation's faith : 

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"Thy God in these distempered days 
Hath taught thee the sure wisdom of his ways, 
And through thine enemies hath wrought thy peace. 
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What were our lives without thee? 
What all our lives to save thee? 
We reck not what we gave thee, 
We will not dare to doubt thee, 
But ask whatever else, and we will dare." 

The influence of President McKinley over his 
countrymen is greater to-day than ever. "It is 
expedient for you," said Christ, "that I go away," 
for he knew that while with them he was misunder- 
stood, when parted from them he would enter forever 
as moulding power into their lives. Sometimes the 
western sky is brighter just after sunset than even 
when the sun stood in meridian splendor, and the 
radiance of the heavens is greatest when the sun 
itself has vanished. So this simple, loyal citizen, 
this martyred President, this devoted patriot, has 
vanished, but his life shines on to illuminate and 
to inspire. He was standing in the sunset light, 
though he knew it not, w^hen the day before the 
assault he spoke those words which we shall never 

forget : ' ' The period of exclusiveness is past 

Commercial wars are unprofitable Let us ever 

remember that our interest is in concord, not conflict, 
and that our real eminence rests in the victories of 

peace, not those of war Our earnest prayer is 

that God will graciously vouchsafe pro.sperity, happi- 

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ness and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings 
to all the peoples and powers of earth." 

Thus breathing peace and benediction on the whole 
people and the civilized world, he met his end. 
Crying : " Let no one hurt him," he faced his mur- 
derer. Praying: "God's will, not ours, be done," 
he entered beyond the veil. And God's will shall be 
yet done in and through our beloved land. The Al- 
mighty has not finished with this people. He who 
led our fathers through the bitterness of Trenton and 
Valle}' Forge, he who preserved the nation through 
the fires of Bull Run and Gettysburg, has still for us 
a mission unachieved, a destiny yet to be realized. 
In his name we set up our banners. We thank him 
for the leader who was till yesterday with us, and now 
is forever with him. We thank God for the kindly, 
gracious, noble life, and then we turn to .silent prayer. 

" Speak no more of his renown, 
Lay your earthly fancies down ; 
In the solemn temple leave him, 
God accept him, Christ receive him." 



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My country, 'tis of thee. 
Sweet land of liberty, 

Of thee I .sing : 
Land where my fathers died, 
Land of the pilgrims' pride. 
From every mountain side, 

Let freedom ring ! 
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Our fathers' God, to thee, 
Author of liberty, 

To thee we sing ; 
Long may our land be bright 
With freedom's holy light, 
Protect us with thy might, 

Great God, our King ! 



XII. Benediction 

Rev. D. W. Faunce, D. D. 



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a IRcport of tbe Services 

WHICH APPEARED IN THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL, SErTEMllER 20, 1901 



AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 
The Governor and State Officials listen to Addresses 

The State of Rhode Island paid fitting tribute to the memorj- 
of the murdered President in a service appointed by His Excel- 
lency the Governor at the old historic First Baptist Meeting 
House. The edifice was thronged with people, and many stood 
outside, unable to gain admittance, but throughout that vast 
multitude the spirit of full appreciation of the solemnity of the 
occasion made a stillness that seemed almost deathlike. The 
people were overawed with feelings too deep for expression, 
and the services were truly in keeping, and afforded utterance 
to what was welling in the hearts of all. 

Rev. W. H. P. Faunce, D. D., President of Brown University, 
made an eloquent address, which appealed to the s}'mpathies 
of the great audience and held all rapt in the closest attention. 
The booming of big guns at minute intervals punctuated the 
observance with a spirit of grim reality, forming a solid back- 
ground for the soft music, and with sad precision keeping the 
awful tragedy uppermost. 

People began to arrive an hour before the services began, and 
the church steps, the broad lawns and the street in front were 
dotted with groups of people. There was no unseemly noise, 
but an all-pervading reverence, and the hush like that which 
precedes the breaking of a storm. It was a period of sad ex- 
pectancy, awaiting the moment when, throughout the length 
and breadth of this great nation, services would begin contem- 
porary with those which committed all that was mortal of 
William McKinley, the martyred President of the United 
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The first of the official representatives of the vState to appear 
were the Justices of the Supreme Court, whose flowing black 
robes were fitting cloaks of sorrow. With Judge Brown of the 
United States Court they occupied seats in the front of the 
church. 

The main delegation assembled at the State House and 
marched on foot two by two. Two policemen in dress uniform 
came before and the line was led by His E;xcellency Governor 
Gregory leaning on the arm of Adjt. Gen. Sackett. The gen- 
eral staff of the State came next and then the personal staff of 
the Governor in dress uniform with crepe badges on their sword 
hilts. Then followed Brig. Gen. Kendall, commanding the 
Brigade of Rhode Island Militia, with his staff. The regi- 
mental staffs were next in line. Col. Matteson and staff and 
Col. McGann and staff of the ist and 2d Regiments. The rest 
of Gov. Gregory's military escort was formed by I\Iaj. Tingley 
and staff of the ist Battalion of Cavalry, with Capt. Maynard 
of Troop B ; Capt. Weaver and his officers of Battery A, Light 
Artillery, a detail from which fired the guns during the day ; 
Capt. Blunt and his officers of the ist Separate Company ; Col. 
Eccleston and staff of the United Train of Artillery and Col. 
Harrington and staff of the Kentish Guards of East Greenwich. 
The officers were all in dress uniform with the insignia of 
sorrow draped on their swords. 

Ex-Governors Dyer, Davis and Brown were in the line, and 
Gen. Brayton leaned on the arm of Congressman Bull. All the 
general officers of the State were present. Secretary of State 
Charles P. Bennett, General Treasurer Walter A. Read, Attor- 
ney General Willard B. Tanner, State Auditor Charles C. Gray 
and representatives of all the Boards. The General Assembly 
was represented by a large delegation from both houses and 
they made almost an unprecedented showing for such an 
occasion. 

Several militarj- organizations attended in bodies. The 
Department of Rhode Island Spanish-American War Veterans 
were present in command of Department Commander Lewis 
F. Burrough. The Sons of the American Revolution and 
the Commandery-in-Chief of the Sons of Veterans, with the 
Ladies' Auxiliary-, were also represented. The official State 



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representation and the invited organizations occupied nearly 
the whole bod}- of the church, and the gallery and sides held 
as many more people as could find room. 

Mourning draperies were arranged in a very tasteful manner. 
Behind the pulpit the carved woodwork was covered with folds 
of black, against which and surmounting all was an excellent 
picture of President McKinley. Big flags stretching from 
black bindings were draped back with mourning ribbons on 
each side of the pulpit, and reaching out below from the knots 
were smaller flags, on the right the flag of the nation and on 
the left the flag of the State, showing pure and bright in its 
white and gold, surmounted by a bow of crepe. From the gal- 
lery hung decorations of black and white in flowing folds. 

Deputy Secretary of State J. Fred Parker was the chief usher, 
and the vast throngs were skilfull}' and quietly cared for with- 
out the slightest confusion either in emptying or filling the 
church. The other ushers were Walter Sturges, John Tillotson, 
Howard Jencks, Harry Wood, Fl L. Sprague, Charles C. Gray, 
Jr., and John Henshaw. 

Rev. Henry M. King, D. D., pastor of the church, occupied 
the pulpit, and on his right sat President Faunce of Brown 
University. The other clergymen on the platform were Rev. 
Augustus M. Ivord, Rev. George W. Kent, Rev. E. O. Bartlett 
and Rev. D. W. Faunce, D. D. 

The services opened with an organ voluntary and an anthem 
by the church quartet. Dr. King then spoke briefly on the 
occasion, and read the proclamations of the President of the 
United States and the Governor of Rhode Island, appointing 
the day as one of mourning, to be observed by special memo- 
rial services. Rev. G. W. Kent then conducted the responsive 
reading of the 90th Psalm, and Scripture was read by Rev. 
Edward O. Bartlett. President McKinley 's favorite hymn, 
" Lead, Kindly Light," was then sung by the congregation, 
and prayer was offered by Rev. Augustus M. Lord. The whole 
congregation rose and sang " Nearer, My God, to Thee," after 
which President p-aunce delivered the address, a complete 
report of which will be found on another page. 

The congregation joined in singing "America," and the ben- 
ediction was pronounced by Rev. D. W. F'aunce, D. D. 



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